In a busy week for the TY students, two external judges examined their Scratch programming projects in the second strand of the SciFest@Stratford competition held on Tuesday, 8th March. Congratulations to Gabriel Messam for his individual project and to Cormac Kelly, Jake Henry and Geordan Sheridan O'Brien for their group projects - they were deemed joint winners.
In a busy week for the TY students, two external judges examined their Scratch programming projects in the second strand of the SciFest@Stratford competition held on Tuesday, 8th March. Congratulations to Gabriel Messam for his individual project and to Cormac Kelly, Jake Henry and Geordan Sheridan O'Brien for their group projects - they were deemed joint winners. They will go on and represent Stratford College at the SciFest@College competition hosted by IT Blanchardstown in early May.
The TYs worked intensively to get their Scratch projects working to a prototype level, along with a poster and a log book. Thanks to George Porter, SciFest co-founder and Brian Gillespie, lecturer in Computer Studies, DIT, for judging the competition.
"I got to see how to make computer games and I liked the experience." Ciara Hopkins
Ms. O'Kelly
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The TY Horticulture class were out in the Autumn sunshine planting Spring bulbs using the chaos planting method. This is when a multitude of different spring bulbs (Hyacinths, Daffodils, Tulips, Crocuses, Narcissi) are mixed together and randomly planted so that we have a mixture of flowers and patterns emerging in the spring. It mimics nature and so is more enticing to pollinators and native insects that need the food in Spring.
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